Hey all, I've recently been introduced to Doctor Who I thought I should make a review of each episode I see as I see it. A friend of mine recommended me to start off with The Eleventh Hour so… here I am. Yay me.

After the 10th doctor's regeneration into the 11th doctor, the Tardis crash-lands in the backyard of a little girl named Amelia Pond. Amelia is scared of a crack that mysteriously appeared on her wall, which occasionally speaks to her. The newly regenerated doctor checks out the crack and discovers that it's a crack in the universe with an Atraxi Prison inside and figures out that an entity called 'Prisoner Zero' has used it to escape. The doctor rushes back to the Tardis and promises Amelia that he'll be back in five minutes. However, the doctor returns late with knowledge on Prisoner Zero's whereabouts and discovers from the home's new owner that Amelia has disappeared six months ago. But things get worse when the Atraxi show up to Earth and threaten to destroy the Earth if Prisoner Zero isn't found and captured.

Now, I feel I just make this clear. These reviews will be spoiler free… but each review after will assume that you have seen the previous episodes. Also, it is difficult to talk about this episode without revealing some spoilers so for this review I will put a spoiler warning. So basically if you haven't seen this episode I will give my quick spoiler free thoughts. Ha-hum. This episode is a good episode to start and it's a good episode. Check it out if you haven't already. Now...

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You are brave. I like that.

Anyway, later it's revealed that the new home owner is the grown up Amelia Pond (now going by Amy Pond) and the doctor wasn't six months late, but 12 years. Whoops. This was a plot twist that I had suspicions about, but still caught me off guard. Now you're asking, why did I choose to reveal that of all things? Because… Amy is the doctor's new companion, and the doctor's new companion is kind of important to talk about don't you think? Now, I like Amy Pond. She's a feisty character which contrasts well to the Eleventh Doctor's sudden goofiness that does leap in a major way from the Tenth Doctor's more serious nature (I am watching this show fairly blind, but I did do research on all the doctors to get a better idea on where I want to start out). The idea of a character traveling with her childhood imaginary friend in adulthood is a nifty idea and it is well implemented when Amy refuses to believe that the doctor really is the doctor at first.

Now for Prisoner Zero. Zero is a nifty and rather frightening creature. Zero must be captured and turned in to the Atraxi by a certain amount of time before the Earth goes CA-BLOOM, which is difficult since Zero is a shape shifting creature so it blends in fairly well. Well, IF YOU DON'T COUNT THE BIG DARK EYES AND THE SHARP TEETH!

Yea, doing a good job hiding your identity there buddy.

Anyway, this is a pretty good introduction to the eleventh doctor. Most doctors start off by resting, but this doctor goes out of the way to kick some alien butt in his first day of the job. This episode does a good job exemplifying a more goofy doctor, but it still makes sure to point out that this doctor still cares about the human race and still has the love of adventure like the previous doctors.

Everything works out in a clever way, with the doctor using Prisoner Zero's ability to represent it's host's memories against it. This is my score.

Story - 85/100 This episode is filled with a lot of twists and turns and it will keep you guessing throughout the episode. Yes, this episode does start out a little slow and you may not be hooked immediately, but it gets better trust me. It does a good job celebrating the past, setting up the future, and more importantly enjoying the present.

Characters- 73/100 This episode is tasked with the difficulty of introducing a whole new slew of characters. A whole new doctor and a whole new companion, oh boy. But this episode does a good job setting up each and everyone. Well, ok it's 73/100 for a reason. I do think Rory could've been developed better. Rory is Amy's boyfriend/fiancé and future co-companion of the doctor. He becomes an important character later but he's just not in the episode enough to fully portray his personality and importance to me personally.

Imagery - 78/100 Most of the areas seen is the city, but here it works. This episode is basically treated like a Where's Waldo, trying to find one Prisoner Zero in a whole city of people just like it. It adds to the confusion and urgency of the situation. Also the effects on Prisoner Zero and the Atraxi look pretty cool. It's a good looking episode and though it doesn't show us much we haven't seen before, really too much of the unexpected can become too predictable if done too much.

Overall - 78.66/100

Great Job!

I'll be honest, I also saw some episodes of the Tenth Doctor just to see which one is better, and so far I feel like the Eleventh Doctor is better. It could be opinionated… in fact it is opinionated, but I do think that The Eleventh Hour is a great episode to start. It starts off fresh, independent from the past episodes and I respect that.